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(Latin Track Volume VII)
Table of Contents
Introduction to Guido Bonatti by Robert Hand ..........................................................................
i
Introduction to the Liber Astronomiae Contained
in the 1491 Edition
of Erhard Ratdolt .................................................................................................
iii
Translator's Preface by Robert Zoller ..................................................................................... vii
Latinized Forms of Arabic Names that Appear in Bonatti ....................................................... xix
Liber Astronomiae of Guido Bonatti, First Tractate ...................................................................
1
Showing the Utility of Astronomy in General.
Chapter I .............................................................................................................
1
That the Stars Imprint [Their Influences] on Inferior
Bodies and that the
Mutations Which Happen in This World
Happen by the Motion of the Stars.
Chapter II ............................................................................................................
5
In What Way the Science of the Judgments of the
Stars is Discovered and
How It Is that It Is Able to be Excused.
Chapter III ...........................................................................................................
6
Against Those Who Say that the Science of the Stars
Is not Able to be
Known by Anyone.
Chapter IV ...........................................................................................................
7
Against Those Who Say That the Stars Do Not Have
Anything to Signify
Concerning Generation and Corruption
nor Anything Which Happens
Concerning These Things on This Side
of the Moon.
Chapter V ...........................................................................................................
11
Against Those Who Say that The Planets Have Signification
Concerning
Universal Things Only.
Chapter VI .........................................................................................................
12
Against Those Who Say that the Stars Signify Only
Two Things: The Necessary
and the Impossible, but not the Possiblc.
Chapter VII ........................................................................................................
12
Against Those Who Contradict the Judgments of Astronomy
and Who Condemn It,
Not Knowing Its Dignity, because It Is
not Lucrative.
Chapter VIII .......................................................................................................
15
Against Those Who Have Said that the Science of
the Stars Is not Useful but
rather Damned because It Induces Sorrow
and Anxiety in Those Who
Foresee the Future, whence They Suffer
from the Causes before the
Impediment Happens to Them.
Chapter IX .........................................................................................................
18
Against Those Who Say That the Judgments of the
Stars Are of No Value,
nor Elections, Saying that It Is Able to be So
Elected for an Enemy
as for Him for Whom It Is Elected.
Chapter X ..........................................................................................................
24
Against Those Who Say Universally that There Is
no Astrology; and the
Demonstration of Its Existence and Nature.
Chapter XI .........................................................................................................
27
What Astronomy Is: Namely the Practical Part.
Chapter XII ........................................................................................................
29
That this Science Should Not Be Condemned Since
the Holy Fathers Used It.
Chapter XIII .......................................................................................................
33
For the Purpose of Demonstrating that Astronomy
is an Art and One of the
Four Mathematics, indeed the Doctrinal Science.
Chapter XIV .......................................................................................................
35
Second Tractate
Part I: On the Division of the Orb of the Signs and their Being and How
They Are
Ordained and Disposed and Why There Are only Twelve, Neither
More nor
Less, and Why They Are Named with Their Names, and the Things
Related
to These ............................................................................................................
38
On the Division of the Orb of the Signs and That
The Signs Are Only Twelve:
Neither More nor Less.
Chapter I ...........................................................................................................
38
How the Signs Act on the Elements, and on Which
Elements Each of the Signs Act.
Chapter II ..........................................................................................................
41
Why the Elements are so Disposed and Ordered.
Chapter III .........................................................................................................
45
For the Demonstration that the Elements Are Only
Four, Neither More nor Less.
Chapter IV .........................................................................................................
46
Why the Signs Were so Ordered or Disposed.
Chapter V ..........................................................................................................
47
Why the Enumeration of the Signs Begins from Aries
and not from Some Other Sign.
Chapter VI .........................................................................................................
49
Why the Signs Were Named with These Names.
Chapter VII ........................................................................................................
51
Here Begins the Second Part of the Second Tractate on the Essential Being
of the Circle .... 53
On the Division of the Orb of the Signs into Twelve
Signs and of Each Sign into
Thirty Degrees and of Each Degree into Sixty
Minutes and of Each Minute
into Sixty Seconds.
Chapter 1 ..........................................................................................................
53
For Showing What Signs are Northern and What Southern.
Chapter II ..........................................................................................................
54
Which Signs are of Direct Ascension and Which are
of Crooked Ascension.
Chapter III .........................................................................................................
55
On the Order of the Circles of the Seven Planets
and Their Disposition and
Courses and in What Times They Complete Their
Courses.
Chapter IV .........................................................................................................
58
The Powers which the Planets have in the Signs.
Chapter V ..........................................................................................................
58
On the Houses of the Planets.
Chapter VI .........................................................................................................
59
On the Detriments of the Planets.
Chapter VII ........................................................................................................
65
On the Exaltations of the Planets.
Chapter VIII .......................................................................................................
67
Why Aries is the Exaltation of the Sun and Libra
is its Descension and Why the
Other Signs are the Exaltations of the Other
Planets.
Chapter IX ..........................................................................................................
67
On the Fall or Descension of the Planets.
Chapter X ...........................................................................................................
69
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Liber Astronomiae of Guido Bonatti
Second Tractate (Continued) .........................................................................................
1
On the Four Triplicities of the Seven Planets.
Chapter XI 1
On the First Triplicity - T Q ;? 1
On the Second Triplicity - b 111 F) 1
On the Third Triplicity - II ~ ~ 2
On the Fourth Triplicity - €9 Tn. }{
2
On the Signs: Moveable, Fixed and Common.
Chapter XII .........................................................................................................
2
On the Aspects of the Planets.
Chapter XIII ........................................................................................................
4
On the Five Terms of the Planets Other than the
Luminaries.
Chapter XIV .........................................................................................................
7
When Telm is Preferred to Triplicity and When Triplicity
is Preferred to Term.
Chapter XV ........................................................................................................
10
On the Direction Which Happens by the Lords of the Terms.
Chapter XVI .......................................................................................................
13
On the Faces of the Signs.
Chapter XVII ......................................................................................................
14
For Finding Any Degree of Any Sign, Whose Face
It Is.
Chapter XVIII .....................................................................................................
16
Concerning the Fortitudes of Any Planets in Each
of his Dignities.
Chapter XIX .......................................................................................................
18
Which Signs Are Called Rational, and Which Have
Beautiful V oices, and Which
Are Domestic, and Which Have Wings, and
Which Are Four Footed.
Chapter XX ........................................................................................................
19
What Parts of the Body Each of the Signs Are Said
to Have and What
Signification in Each Member, and Which
Manners of Men, and
What They Signify of Seeds, Regions, and the Like.
Chapter XXI .......................................................................................................
22
On Aries .............................................................................................................
22
On Taurus ..........................................................................................................
23
On Gemini ..........................................................................................................
23
On Cancer ..........................................................................................................
24
On Leo ...............................................................................................................
24
On Virgo .............................................................................................................
26
On Libra .............................................................................................................
26
On Scorpio .........................................................................................................
27
On Sagittarius ....................................................................................................
27
On Capricorn ......................................................................................................
28
On Aquarius .......................................................................................................
28
On Pisces ...........................................................................................................
28
Which Part of the Body Each Planet Signifies in
Each Sign.
Chapter XXII ......................................................................................................
29
On the Degrees Masculine and Feminine in Each Sign
Chapter XXIII .....................................................................................................
31
On the Degrees Lucid, Dark, Smokey, and Void.
Chapter XXIV .....................................................................................................
32
On the Puteal Degrees.
Chapter XXV ......................................................................................................
14
On the Azemene Degrees.
Chapter XXVI .....................................................................................................
36
On the Degrees Which Increase Fortune.
Chapter XXVII ....................................................................................................
37
On the Degrees of Equal Power and Those Conforming
in Virtue.
Chapter XXVIll ....................................................................................................
38
The Third Part of the Second Tractate: On the Nature of the Accidental
Circle ...................... 40
On the Division of the Circle by House.
Chapter I ...........................................................................................................
40
On the Division of the Quarters of the Circle.
Chapter II .........................................................................................................
42
Which Half Is Called Ascending or Descending and
Which Part Is Called Right or Left.
Chapter III ........................................................................................................
44
On the Angular, Cadent and Succedent Houses.
Chapter IV .........................................................................................................
45
On the Significations of the Twelve Houses.
Chapter V ..........................................................................................................
46
On the First House ............................................................................................
46
On the Second House .......................................................................................
48
On the Third House ...........................................................................................
52
On the Fourth House .........................................................................................
55
On the Fifth House ............................................................................................
57
On the Sixth House ...........................................................................................
59
On the Seventh House ......................................................................................
61
On the Eighth House .........................................................................................
63
On the Ninth House ...........................................................................................
64
On the Tenth House ..........................................................................................
65
On the Eleventh House .....................................................................................
66
On the Twelfth House .......................................................................................
66
[Summary Comments] .......................................................................................
68
Concerning the Significations of the Twelve Houses
in the Contrary Direction
[Namely] the Progress of the Aforesaid.
Chapter VI .........................................................................................................
69
First Concerning the Twelfth House ...................................................................
69
On the Eleventh House and its Lord ..................................................................
71
On the Tenth House and its Lord .......................................................................
73
On the Ninth house and its Lord ........................................................................
74
On the Eighth House and its Lord ......................................................................
76
On the Seventh house and its Lord ...................................................................
78
On the Sixth House and its Lord ........................................................................
80
On the Fifth House and his Lord ........................................................................
82
On the Fourth house and its Lord ......................................................................
84
On the Third House and its Lord ........................................................................
87
On the Second House and Its Lord ....................................................................
89
On the First House and its Lord .........................................................................
90
Concerning the Ease of Discovering the
Signification of Each House ................. 92
On the Numbering of the Houses and Why They Begin
from the First and
Proceed towards the Fourth and from the
Fourth to the Seventh and
from the Seventh to the Tenth and from
the Tenth to the First.
Chapter VII ........................................................................................................
94
Which Houses Are Strong, Which Are Stronger, Which
Are Weak Which Are
Weaker, and Which Mediocre.
Chapter VIII .......................................................................................................
95
That the Planets Go Against the Firmament, i.e.,
Against the First Motion.
Chapter IX .........................................................................................................
99
On the Colors Which the Houses Signify.
Chapter X ..........................................................................................................
99
In What Houses the Planets Rejoice.
Chapter XI .......................................................................................................
100
On the Significations of the Houses or of the Angles
and Succedents, and of
the Lords of the Angles, Succedents and
of the Cadents.
Chapter XII ......................................................................................................
101
On the Signification of the Lords of the Angles
[in] the Angles.
Chapter XIII .....................................................................................................
102
First, Concerning the Lord of the First
in the First ............................................ 102
On the Lord of the Tenth in the Tenth
............................................................. 102
On the Lord of the Seventh in the Seventh
..................................................... 103
On the Lord of the Fourth in the Fourth
........................................................... 104
On the Lord of the Fourth in the Tenth
............................................................ 104
On the Lord of the Fourth in the Seventh
........................................................ 104
On the Signification of the Lords of
the Succedent [Houses] in
Succedent [Houses] .........................................................................................
104
On the Signification of the Lords of
the Cadent [Houses] in
Cadent [Houses] .............................................................................................
105
On Finding the Signiticator of the Thing Sought.
Chapter XIV .....................................................................................................
105
On Accidental Powers.
Chapter XV ......................................................................................................
107
Appendix - On the Various Kinds of Reception ..................................................................... 109
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Introduction to the Third Tractus of Bonatti's Liber Astronomiae
by Robert Hand ................................................................................................................
i
Aspects, Applications and Separations with Special
Reference to the Verb fungo ........... ii
1. Basic Terms of Aspect Formation .......................................................................
v
II. Different Kinds of Joining ...................................................................................
v
III. Different Types of the Blocking
of the Joining of Planets ................................. vi
The Third Tractatus Begins. Concerning the Natures of the Seven Planets,
What Is Proper
to Them, and What Each Signifies about Any Matter
Whatever According to its Own
Condition, and According to Their Own Natures,
and What They Impress upon
Inferiors According to the Diversity of the Qualities
of Their Own Motions ...................... 1
Concerning Saturn and What He Signifies.
Chapter I ...............................................................................................................
1
About the Complexion of Saturn with Jupiter
and Other Planets ........................... 4
Concerning Jupiter and What He Signifies.
Chapter II ..............................................................................................................
8
Concerning Jupiter's Complexion with
Saturn and the Other Planets .................... 9
Concerning Mars, What He Signifies.
Chapter III ...........................................................................................................
12
Concerning Mars' Complexion with Saturn
and the Other Planets ....................... 12
Concerning the Significations of Mars
When He Is the Only Significator ............... 13
Concerning the Complexion of Mars with
Saturn .................................................. 15
Concerning the Sun and What He Signifies.
Chapter IV ............................................................................................................
17
Concerning the Signification of the Sun
with Saturn and Other Planets ............... 20
Concerning Venus. What She SignifIes.
Chapter V .............................................................................................................
22
Concerning the Complexion of Venus with
Saturn and Other Planets .................. 25
Concerning Mercury and What He Signifies.
Chapter VI ............................................................................................................
28
Concerning the Mercury's Complexion with
Saturn and the Other Planets .......... 30
Concerning Mercury When He is Made Fortunate
................................................. 31
Concerning the Moon and What She Signifies.
Chapter VII ..........................................................................................................
34
Concerning the Complexion of the Moon
with Saturn and the Other Planets ...... 36
Concerning the Forms Which the Moon Signifies
.................................................. 39
Concerning the Signification of the Moon
in the Square Aspect of the Sun .......... 41
Concerning the Signification of the Moon
from the Conjunction to
the Half of Her Light .............................................................................................
42
[Summary of Planetary Significations] ............................................................................
44
Concerning the Head and Tail of the Dragon and
What They Signify.
Chapter VIII .........................................................................................................
44
What Each of the Planets Causes in the Conception
of Children.
Chapter IX ............................................................................................................
45
In What Manner the Life of the Native Is Disposed
According to the Years of
Rearing of Each Planet.
Chapter X .............................................................................................................
48
Which Days and Which Nights Each Planet Has and
Why Each Is Denominated
by That Planet, and Concerning the Unequal
Hours, and Concerning the
Masculine and Feminine Hours.
Chapter XI ............................................................................................................
49
Concerning the Hours of the Night, Equal
and Unequal ........................................ 50
Concerning Masculine and Feminine Hours
........................................................... 50
Concerning the Forms or Figures Which the Signs
Give to Natives.
Chapter XII ...........................................................................................................
51
Concerning the Different Accidents which Befall
Men.
Chapter XIII ..........................................................................................................
53
The Second Part [of the Third Tractatus] Concerning These Things Which
Befall the
Planets by Themselves and Which Happen to One Planet
Because of Another .............. 56
Concerning These Things That Happen to Planets
by Themselves.
Chapter I ..............................................................................................................
56
Concerning When Planets are Northern and When Southern.
Chapter II .............................................................................................................
62
Concerning Those Things Which Happen to Planets
Mutually, Namely, to
One of Them from the Other.
Chapter III ...........................................................................................................
63
[More] Concerning Almuguea ...............................................................................
66
Concerning the Almuguea of the Other
Planets ................................................... 66
Concerning the Alitifal of the Planets.
Chapter V .............................................................................................................
67
When Planets Are Called Oriental and When Occidental.
Chapter V .............................................................................................................
68
Concerning the Two Inferior Planets, When They
Are Oriental and When
They Are Occidental.
Chapter VI ...........................................................................................................
69
[Conclusions from the Last Group of Chapters.]
............................................................ 70
Concerning the Dustoria or Hayz of the Planets.
Chapter VII ..........................................................................................................
71
Concerning the Three Superior Planets from the
Place Where They Appear from
under the Sun's Rays.
Chapter VIII .........................................................................................................
74
Concerning Venus and Mercury When They
Are Separated from the Sun ............ 75
Concerning the Conjunction of the Planets According
to Latitude.
Chapter IX ............................................................................................................
76
Concerning the Voiding of the Course of the Planets.
Chapter X .............................................................................................................
77
Concerning the Transfer of the Nature of the Planets.
Chapter XI ............................................................................................................
78
Concerning the Return of the Light of the Planets
and its Abscission.
Chapter XII ...........................................................................................................
80
Concerning the Prohibition of Conjunction, and
Why Sometimes Matters
Are Not Perfected.
Chapter XIII .........................................................................................................
81
[On the Donation of Virtue, or Reception] ......................................................................
83
Concerning the Return of Virtue When a Planet Gives
Back to That Planet
Which Has Given to It.
Chapter XIV .........................................................................................................
85
Concerning the Refrenation of the Planets.
Chapter XV ..........................................................................................................
87
Concerning the Contrariety of the Planets.
Chapter XVI .........................................................................................................
88
Concerning the Frustration of the Conjunction of
the Planets.
Chapter XVII .. .....................................................................................................
89
Concerning the Abscission of the Light of One Planet
by Another.
Chapter XVIII .......................................................................................................
91
In Which Places Planets Become Strong, and in Which
Weak, and in Which
They Become Fortunate and in Which Unfortunate.
Chapter XIV .........................................................................................................
92
When and in Which Places Planets Become Weak.
Chapter XX ..........................................................................................................
94
Concerning the Besieging of Planets and Signs.
Chapter XXI .........................................................................................................
96
How One Planet Loves Another and How It Is Loved
by Another, and How
They Have Hatred for Each Other.
Chapter XXII ........................................................................................................
97
Concerning the Friendship of the Planets.
Chapter XXIII .......................................................................................................
99
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Introduction to the Sixth Tractatus of Bonatti's Liber Astronomiae, Bonatti
on
Horary, the First Part by Robert Hand ...........................................................................
i
Reception and Perfection in Bonatti ..............................................................................
ii
General Notes ..............................................................................................................
vi
The Sixth Tractatus
The First Part, Three Introductory Chapters .................................................................
1
Concerning the Divisions of Judgments or an Introduction
in Brief to the
Judgments of the Stars. Chapter I ......................................................................
1
How One May Reach a Judgment. Chapter II ................................................................
4
Concerning the Exposition of the First
Mode ....................................................... 5
Concerning the Exposition of the Second
Mode .................................................. 6
Concerning the Exposition of the Third
Mode ...................................................... 8
Concerning Another Mode of Periecting
Matters ............................................... 10
Concerning Some Other Accidents of Matters
Which Are Perfected ................... 11
Concerning Those Matters Which Come Easily
.................................................. 11
Concerning Those Matters Which Are Accomplished
in a Short Time ................. 11
Concerning those Matters Which Are Accomplished
with Suit ........................... 12
Concerning Those Matters Which Are Accomplished
with Suit, Striving,
and Effort ................................................................................................
12
Concerning Those Matters Which Are Accomplished
with Effort, Which
Yet Are Hardly Ever Perfected
.................................................................. 12
When the Matter Which Someone Wishes
May Be without Reception ............... 12
When the Matter Which One Asks about
Is a Magistracy or Dignity .................. 13
When a Matter Is Hoped for from a Great
Man, How it Will Be Accomplished .... 13
When a Conjunction or Aspect Does not
Intervene .......................................... 13
[When Reception is Not Effective] .....................................................................
14
[When the Significator of a Matter is
a Malefic] ................................................. 16
By What Significations It Is Known Whether Matters
Ought to Be Perfected.
Chapter III ........................................................................................................
17
[The Second Part,] a Tractatus Begins Which Concerns the Particular Judgments
of the Stars .................................................................................................................
19
What Signifies the Person of the Querent and What
Happens for Him Concerning
Any Question and Concerning Any Matter
Whatever That He Intends to Do
or to Begin Inasmuch as Asking a Question
or Beginning [Something]
Pertains to Him, and Likewise Concerning
Those Matters Which Naturally
Seem to Have Regard to This. Chapter
I ........................................................... 19
How You Should Observe the Shadow When Questions
Are Put to You.
Chapter II .........................................................................................................
21
What Is the Trunk and What Are the Branches of
this Tree. Chapter III .................... 23
The Astrologer Ought Not to Look for Himself. Chapter
IV .......................................... 24
In This We Look at Planets Which Impede Matters
So That They Do
Not Happen. Chapter V .....................................................................................
31
[The Third Part,] Concerning the Second House ....................................................................
34
Concerning Substance Which the Querent Hopes to
Obtain for Himself.
Chapter I ...........................................................................................................
34
From Whence He Will Acquire Substance, and Wherefore
He Will Lose It,
and for What Reason. Chapter II ......................................................................
35
Concerning the Causes Whereby the Querent Will
Not Acquire Substance.
Chapter III ........................................................................................................
38
Whether the Querent Will Acquire Substance Which
He Seeks, Has Lent,
or Deposited. Chapter IV ..................................................................................
43
Whether the Querent Will Gain from the Substance
of the King.
Chapter V ..........................................................................................................
45
Concerning the Time of the Aforesaid Matters. Chapter
VI ......................................... 46
[The Fourth Part,] Concerning the Third House ....................................................................
48
Concerning Siblings and Their State of Being. Chapter
I ............................................ 48
[The Fifth Part,] Concerning the Fourth House ......................................................................
52
Concerning a House or an Inherited Property Which
Someone Intends to Buy
or to Obtain in Some Other Manner, Whether
the Querent Will Obtain it.
Chapter I ..........................................................................................................
52
Concerning the Form of the Thing Which Is to Be
Purchased and its Nature.
Chapter II .........................................................................................................
54
Concerning the Quality of the Laborers. Chapter
IV ................................................... 57
Concerning the Oldness or Newness of Things. Chapter
IV ........................................ 58
Concerning the Situation of the Land, Chapter V
........................................................ 58
Whether the Hiring of Land or a House Would Be
Profitable Chapter VI ..................... 59
[The Sixth Part,] Concerning the Fifth House ........................................................................
61
Whether Someone Will Have Children by His Wife
or by Another Woman Whom He
Describes, or Whether Similarly He Asks
about Children in a Similar Manner.
Chapter I ..........................................................................................................
61
When There Is an Absolute Question about a Child.
Chapter II ................................. 62
Whether a Woman is Pregnant. Chapter III ...............................................................
64
Whether a Woman is Pregnant or Not. Chapter IV
..................................................... 65
If a Woman Who Has Conceived Carries One or Several
in Her Womb.
Chapter V ..........................................................................................................
66
Whether a Woman Carries a Male or a Female [Child].
Chapter VI ............................. 67
[The Seventh Part,] Concerning the Sixth House ..................................................................
69
Whether a Sick Person May Be Delivered from an
Illness by Which He Is
Held Fast or Not. Chapter I ...............................................................................
69
Concerning the Sick Person, Whether He Will Escape
[from the Illness].
Chapter II .........................................................................................................
74
On the Critical Days and Good or Bad Crises in
Illnesses. Chapter III ........................ 82
Whether Someone Absent Will Become Ill. Chapter
IV ................................................ 83
Whether or Not a Servant May Be Freed from Servitude.
Chapter V ........................... 89
Whether a Lord WiIl Sell a Serving-man. Chapter
VI ................................................... 91
Concerning the Buying of a Serving-man or Concerning
Any SmaIl Animal
Whatever, or a Serving-woman. Chapter
VII .................................................... 92
Whether a Master Will Obtain the Property of a
Serving-man or Woman.
Chapter VIII ......................................................................................................
94